How to Limit Government in the Age of Obama

The Role of Congress

Joseph Postell, PhD: Limiting government in the age of Obama is a tall order, but it is a tall order not simply because of who occupies the White House. It is a tall order because it requires limiting government in the age of the administrative state, which stacks the deck against those hoping to place limits on government.
To mount an effective challenge to the expansion of the national government, we must first understand what we are up against. Only then can we devise a strategy to get us back towards limited government.

What Is the Administrative State?

Our government today resembles an administrative state more than a republic. What is an administrative state? It is not simply “Big Government,” nor does it describe the modern welfare state. It does not refer to the size of government, nor to the creation of entitlements to be distributed by government. The administrative state is defined by the structure of our modern state—a structure which is deeply in tension with our central constitutional principles.

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